This is another FBI failure: This is our third failure since 2000 to take al-Awlaki seriously, says Thomas Joscelyn in The Weekly Standard, and now 13 more Americans are dead. Seriously, “how dense can the FBI be?” There is no legitimate reason for a U.S. Army officer to “contact a major Al Qaeda ideologue.” It’s “myopic to the point of absurdity” to say there’s “no evidence of a ‘broader terrorist plot.’”“The Federal Bureau of Non-Investigation”

Al Qaeda and neocons agree on something: The Hasan-Al Qaeda reports are “sketchy,” says John Cook in Gawker, but they’re clearly “something both terrorists and wingnuts wish were true.” Both Sen. Joe Lieberman and al-Awlaki’s team “want Hasan to be a Muslim terrorist,” and for the same political reason: it “helps them scare the sh*t out of people.” It’s hard to show that Al Qaeda jihadists are lurking everywhere if Hasan was a mere lone-wolf murderer.“How the Ft. Hood shooter brings radical clerics and right-wing nuts together”

It’s hard to stop fanatics, period: I think the evidence is actually growing that Hasan’s “a crazy fanatic who wanted to get in touch with Al Qaeda,” says Megan McArdle in The Atlantic, and that somebody should have done something about him. But what? The FBI has done “very well” at disrupting terrorist plots, but it’s harder to stop a “lone gunman with no need for a support team.” And that’s true if you’re an Al Qaeda wannabe or an abortion-doctor killer.“The lessons of Fort Hood”